July 2022

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Hydration, fat, and you

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WellandGood.com has a sobering explanation of changing hydration needs as we age and suggests how to maintain adequate hydration.

“The amount of water you need to drink changes in tandem with your body composition, which naturally shifts as you age. For most people as the decades march on, fat mass increases while lean mass, or muscle, decreases. Muscle is ‘wetter’ than fat, so as we lose this muscle, we lose the ability to hold on to all that water.”

Pass the water.

– Jet Cannon

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Sideways

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We recently took part in a small group wine tasting expertly paired with the movie Sideways.  Host John, benefiting from years of experience as a wine distributor, enhanced the movie with background and trivia.  But you don’t have to be a wine expert to enjoy sharing some Merlot with friends while you watch the movie.  Or sample as we did a 2018 Cambria Pinot Noir.  Per Wine Enthusiast, “A spearmint aroma meets pomegranate and raspberry jam on the the nose of this widely available bottling.  There’s a rocky grip to the palate, where fresh mint and strawberry sorbet flavors are enhanced by turned loam and dried herb elements.”  Like Jack, we didn’t experience all that but it sure tasted good!

– Jet Cannon

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The Dangers of Iced Cocktails

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There are no dangers of iced cocktails.  In fact, they are perfectly delightful for hot summer days and nights.  But back in the day, and even though ice was available for medicinal purposes, adding ice to a drink was not advised.  

Tireless Buzzed Boomer Researcher and Beverage Tester, Maserati Mike, found an article excerpting the new Camper English book, “Doctors and Distillers:  The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails.”  English writes early beliefs were that “adding ice to wine or water was thought by different cultures to cause colic, convulsions, paralysis, blindness, madness, and sudden death.”  Yeah, but that’s better than a warm adult beverage on a hot day!!  

Frederic Tudor, starting in 1810, exported ice from American lakes like Walden Pond to places like Cuba, India, and Brazil.  “He offered bartenders free ice to get their customers hooked on cooling drinks.”  That old trick.  It worked.

– Jet Cannon

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Ice Cream for Astronauts

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Leave it to the New York Times to show us beer/wine/soda and basic cocktail amateur bartenders what’s what in creative, international cocktails. Two Schmucks in Barcelona shares the Ice Cream for Astronauts recipe which essentially adds basil and coconut ice cream to a gin and tonic. We wouldn’t have thought of that. For more recipes for imaginative summer cocktails read here.

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Goodbye to the perfect big brother

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Tony Dow, who played Wally on Leave It To Beaver, has passed away at age 77. The show, in syndication, has never gone off the air. Good clean family fun was the order of the day as the Beaver, Wally, and troublemaker Eddie Haskell navigated suburban life in a simpler world. Tony went on to act and direct in Hollywood. Rest In Peace, Tony.

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Photo: NYTimes.com

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Eating: The fun part of exercise

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What you eat and drink before and after exercise matters. So says trusted Consumer Reports in this WASHINGTON POST article. Briefly, “a pre-exercise snack can give you energy, and eating after exercise is important because that is when cells are primed to absorb carbs and protein.  Be sure you’re drinking enough fluid before, during and after workouts to stay hydrated.”

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Blue Boomers still got it

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Blue Oyster Cult’s original member “Buck Dharma” plus long time member Eric Bloom are proving they’ve still got the Mojo during their current tour. They played the hits but also came to jam!  Alas, no cowbell but otherwise, perfect!

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Product Endorsement

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Alert Buzzed Boomer Research Analyst Princess S noticed this product review Tweet and passed it along.

Beth Sullivan. Verified Purchase. 48 Liquid caps.

“Spider dreams guaranteed. Got these for a transatlantic flight from Seattle. Took effect about 20 minutes from consumption. I slept for about 4 hours and continued to use them to adjust to the timezone change. Every night I had the same dream about a spider wrapping me in a web very tightly and speaking backwards. It seemed very scared and was furious I could not understand what it was trying to say. 20 years passed in the dream world and eventually the spider and I became close friends and four years later we were married. Understandably our differences were too much and our relationship fell apart from the inside. My infidelity was the last straw and we never recovered from the betrayal. I would always wake up right before we signed the divorce papers. I had this same dream every night for 6 days. Great product. Highly recommend.“

Luckily, we don’t know exactly what this product is.

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Monster Metabolism

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The Silver Diaries blog has some helpful suggestions for speeding up the 50+ metabolism. Read the blog and see how weight training, more protein, spicy food, hydration, coffee/green tea, fasting, and, yes, rest, can contribute to burning more calories than you consume to help drop those pounds.

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Corona Sunrise

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We got this from sugarandsoul.co and it’s an easy, fun, and refreshing adult summer beverage. We like that it’s made right in the bottle! Drink the Corona down to the label. Great start. Add a shot of tequila then a splash of orange juice. A bit of grenadine adds color. Garnish with a lime after squeezing in a bit of juice. Drink. Repeat.

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Daiquiri Day

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July 19 is National Daiquiri Day!  Thank you NationalDayCalendar.com.  Born in Cuba in the late 1800’s, the rum, lime and sugar cocktail evolved to become a favorite of Ernest Hemingway and John F. Kennedy.  Today, toss some frozen limeade in the blender with some rum and ice and, voila, a refreshing summer delight!

Cheers!

– Jet Cannon

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Atomic Cocktails

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July 16 is the anniversary of the first atomic bomb explosion on July 16, 1945 in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Making the best of impending Cold War annihilation, bartenders back then stirred up wonderful libations like the Duck and Cover, the Atomic Fireball, and the Oppenheimer Martini. Luckily, today, the world possesses slightly less than 14,000 nuclear warheads. We feel so much safer now.

  • Jet Cannon

Photo: Brittania.com